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The Week in Ransomware – September 17th 2021 – REvil Decrypted It has been an interesting week with decryptors released, ransomware gangs continuing to rail against negotiators, and the US government expected to sanction crypto exchanges next week. This week’s biggest news is that soon after REvil returned from its two-month absence, Bitdefender released a master decryptor that
U.S. to Sanction Crypto Exchanges, Wallets Used By Ransomware The Biden administration is expected to issue sanctions against crypto exchanges, wallets, and traders used by ransomware gangs to convert ransom payments into fiat money. With ransomware attacks against US interests and infrastructure escalating over the past two years, the White House has increased its efforts to disrupt ransomware operations.
Admin of DDoS Service Behind 200,000 Attacks Faces 35yrs In Prison At the end of a nine-day trial, a jury in California this week found guilty the administrator of two distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations. 32-year old Matthew Gatrel of St. Charles, Illinois, ran two websites that allowed paying users to launch more than 200,000 DDoS
Mozilla Tests Microsoft Bing As The Default Firefox Search Engine Mozilla is running a study to test users’ responses to changing the default Firefox search engine to Microsoft Bing. Like all browsers, Mozilla Firefox automatically configures a browser to a default search engine for performing searches via the address bar. For example, Google is the